A custom-designed vacuum system configured to top-load large scale parts into a solution for cleansing/degassing. The stand alone automated vacuum cycle is facilitated by a rotary vane vacuum pump in communication with digital gauge and controller system. View ports and a separate side access panel allow monitoring and access to the parts in process together with a rotary turntable for manipulation of the process/parts within the chamber under vacuum.
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Companies who manufacturer space instrumentation (including satellites themselves) have to subject their products to Prototyping, Flight Qualification, and Flight Verification phases. Before launch, the products must experience space-like temperatures and vacuum levels, and be shown not only to survive the extreme ranges, but also to operate within specification before, during, and after. Space Simulation Chambers are key to these tests, and Abbess Instruments of Holliston, is one of the few companies in the world with the capability to manufacture them.Read more »

Subject your medical, pharmaceutical, food, electronics, and aerospace products and/or packaging to the minimum or range of pressures that they must survive, and/or operate in, as they are trucked/flown or used around the world at various altitudes. Abbess Instruments has a wide portfolio of Altitude Test systems to suit your needs in addressing DOT and FAA ASTM test requirements: Since altitude, from sea level to space, can be associated with a particular pressure, all our vacuum chambers seen on this website can be described and used as Altitude Test Chambers.
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Altitude and Space Simulation vacuum systems are presented that can be configured as test beds for optical systems. These test beds can offer optical testing capabilities at a variety of temperatures and vacuum pressures with PC touch screen GUI control and monitoring.
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Abbess can help you press and/or seal your medical, pharmaceutical, food, electronics, and aerospace packaging under vacuum using either seal bar(s) or seal plate(s). Satisfy Quality Control requirements by automatically monitoring, data-logging, and displaying the seal/press conditions.
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Operators of vacuum systems sometimes require a 360° view of the Unit Under Test (UUT). This is especially true of many packaging leak tests. Abbess Systems has a wide portfolio of high-visibility systems to suit your needs.

Do you need to see your products while they are under vacuum? Observe filling and encapsulation operations and leak test your medical, pharmaceutical, food, electronics, and aerospace inventory and packaging with Abbess Instruments’ High-Visibility Vacuum Systems. Satisfy Quality Control requirements by automatically monitoring, data-logging, and displaying the vacuum environment.
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The Purge Gas or Contamination Kit will be of greatest interest to our Space Simulation customers, especially those who will be placing actual Space Flight hardware in our chambers – whether in component, subsystem, or full system form. It provides for chamber bakeout, dry inert gas purging, and easy after-market installation of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
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Performance Specifications

All performance specifications stated, including but not limited to, pump-down rates and vacuum levels make the following assumptions:

The Vacuum Chamber is empty.

The Vacuum Chamber and other system components are clean and dry.

The System is being operated at Sea Level

The ambient temperature is 18°C +/- 2°C

All system components, including those not supplied by Abbess, are appropriate for the system and are functioning properly.

The specifications are not impacted by the properties of your product.

If you require performance specifications for conditions other than those listed above, it is vital that you make this known to Abbess Instruments in writing. Generally Abbess Instruments recommends choosing chamber and pumping system qualities capable of achieving a theoretical vacuum at least an order of magnitude better than the desired operational vacuum.

It is to be noted that a specification described as '10-5 Torr' is a range, and means the clean, empty, dry chamber system is capable of reaching some undetermined value between 1.0x10-5 and 9.9x10-5 Torr: The (clean, empty, dry) chamber is deemed compliant whether its As-Built base vacuum is 1.0x10-5 Torr or 9.9x10-5 Torr. It does not mean that the chamber is guaranteed to reach every level within that range.

Memberships:

Abbess is a member of ASTM, AVS (American Vacuum Society), and the Cryogenic Society of America.

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